Spotlight reindexing after abnormal power down

My Macbook will occasionally fail to put itself into proper sleep mode, and instead will power itself off entirely. That's a separate issue, but on Leopard this event causes Spotlight to reindex on the next restart. Could be normal in response to an abnormal power down though.

I have the same problem here I called Apple three time for this and engineer told me to reinstall Leopard 1st time I did reinstall Archive and Install and it did not work, the 2nd time I did a clean install and it worked for three days without reindexing and everything worked fine.
Today my iMac hanged and i got the screen that says "You need to restart your computer Hold down the power button for several seconds or press restart... etc."
after restarting the reindexing start again, I noticed when the iMac hangs the reindexing starts.
I have an external drive WD My Book 1TB with about 700GB of data with Time Machine backups. it is reindexing for the past 15 hours and it is estimating indexing time forever.
the external drive was formated with iMac 20" intel based, Partition Map Scheme: Apple Partition Map and it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
my drives fats on all the time and the iMac is unusable ATSserver is @74%
any help guys?
Thank you
zsafwan

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panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800a41a46e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800a8e9774, type 14=page fault, registers:
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